UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

In 1971, the soils on his family farm in Ohio contained 0.75% organic matter and a pH as low as 4.2 By focusing heavily on implementing cover crops, no-till management and diversity of plant species, Brandt and his family completely transformed their central Ohio soils. They now have pastures that triple that production.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. There were 141,733 fewer farms in the US in 2022 than in 2017, according to the Census of Agriculture. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. Agroforestry is a sustainable land management approach that can be integrated into existing traditional crop and livestock systems.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While these programs haven’t always been used to make farms climate resilient, they all have the potential to do so—and more funding and specific guardrails specified within the IRA would make that even more likely. Seth Watkins, a farmer from Clarinda, Iowa, was able to save his family farm with the help of conservation funding.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

In 1909, he named the land “Valley View Ranch” — a name that Rod and Beth, along with their children, who represent the next generation of farmers on the family ranch, have preserved and continued to date. “We Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

They enjoy that their children can safely run around the farm, interact with the pigs that are raised on pasture, and even help with their parents’ work. Our son says all the time that he wants to farm with his dad when he gets bigger,” says Mikala.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But wanting to pass on her legacy, she worked with 3 of her mentees, assisting them in raising capital from the community that she helped build to purchase the farm, launching the first worker-owned cooperative CSA on the north coast. We look forward to watching that farm and his impact grow!

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In the US, for example, organic milk producer Albert Straus works with a group of small family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Langford Farm, run by Teresa and Charlie Allward, was one of the farms involved in the pilot. Straus feels that “ collaborating with the next generation is essential.”

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. standards,” he writes in an email.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They’re also raising pasture-fed pork at Redtail Farms, and while the pork is a profitable venture, Griebel admits that he isn’t sure if it fits into their long-term sustainability plan. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. As one gets closer to the Quimbayo Gutiérrez family farm, the landscape begins to change. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Climate Smart Farmers of Year: Foggy Bottoms Boys For six generations, this family farm has operated in the foggy bottoms of the Eel River Valley on the far northern coast of California. Their highly-diversified farm produces organic dairy, beef, lamb, poultry, eggs, and even yarn made from their sheep, goats and angora rabbits.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. And it is no accident.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Creates a 10% set-aside of EQIP funds for payments for practices implemented on small farms. No language to prevent payment limitation abuse.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Make USDA Farm Lending More Equitable Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) introduced the Fair Credit for Farmers Act , which would improve accountability and transparency within Farm Service Agency lending in an attempt to better ensure that historically underserved farmers and ranchers receive equal treatment.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Make USDA Farm Lending More Equitable Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) introduced the Fair Credit for Farmers Act , which would improve accountability and transparency within Farm Service Agency lending in an attempt to better ensure that historically underserved farmers and ranchers receive equal treatment.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“I stood a chance of losing my livestock,” Johnson wrote in a 1999 affidavit to receive part of a $2.3 Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. walks among the cattle on his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov.

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The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. Here's a young wanna-be farmer stymied by parental paranoia regarding bird flu. That was 20 years ago.

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